Album Of The Week: Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, & Jon Randall The Marfa Tapes

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In 2016, reeling after her divorce from fellow country star Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert took a trip with Jack Ingram and Jon Randall, two other Texans in the country music business. Ingram was a bit of a minor star himself, a longtime singer-songwriter who’d had one #1 hit on the country charts, 2005’s “Wherever You Are.” Ingram was a veteran when he landed that one, and he just kept lingering around after it. Back before she got famous, Lambert used to open for him. Randall started out in Emmylou Harris’ Nash Ramblers band, and he went on become a behind-the-scenes figure. He co-wrote Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss’ heart-crunching duet “Whiskey Lullaby,” for instance, and he produced records for people like Dierks Bentley and Dwight Yoakam and Jack Ingram. Randall released his own records, too, but they weren’t hits, and he didn’t make them too often.

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